ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
If We All Want The Same Thing, Why Are We Not Asking For The Same Thing?
The whole world (bar the few who benefit) wants the Israel-Hamas war to end, so why is the world not unifying and demanding the obvious?
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When I looked at the news this morning, hoping, as I have done for the last 210 days, to see some good news, I felt enraged and deflated by the absolute insanity that is the world today.
The most likely kind of good news in the current situation is that Hamas and Israel are actually reaching an agreement that will lead to the release of the over-100 innocent hostages taken by Hamas from Israel on October 7th, and a plan to find a peaceful path forward for everyone. Not surprisingly, I was disappointed…again.
But today my disappointment came not from the news that Hamas has indicated they will reject the current proposal from Israel, that Antony Blinken has described as “very generous” on Israel’s part — evidenced by the fact that far right members of the Israeli government have threatened to resign if Israel and Hamas agree to its terms. That wasn’t so much a disappointment because it was to be expected.
No, my real disappointment was that, yet again, Hamas is rejecting a chance to bring about peace to the people of Gaza — something they claim to want yet are not giving us any real proof of — and the idiots of the world are still failing to implicate Hamas in its role in the war. You know, starting it, committing multiple war crimes including targeting, raping and massacring civilians and using schools, hospitals and family homes as military bases, breaking agreements repeatedly, hijacking aid, and turning down all offers to stop the fighting and start working towards a long-term solution.
And here they are again, with an offer to receive thousands of their imprisoned rapist death-cult members in return for a mere 33 innocent Israeli hostages and a temporary ceasefire to lead into peace talks, and they are turning it down again. In favour of allowing Israel to continue the war, potentially taking many more lives and displacing many who already have nowhere to go.
It’s not surprising. Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, is reported by Arab mediators to believe that “he has already won the war, whether he survives it or doesn’t, by opening the world’s eyes to the suffering of Palestinians and bringing the conflict to the forefront of global affairs” (source), and to allow Israel to pursue its plans for a ground invasion in Rafah will only further this goal, securing more of a win for Hamas, to the detriment of Israel’s image, yet allowing more deaths of Palestinians to be the trophy.
Of course, Israel could choose not to invade Rafah, and this is obviously preferred by many groups calling for an end to the violence. But the fact is that, if Israel were merely to refrain from more military action, it won’t end the suffering or the conflict itself. Hamas has no intention of letting that happen.
Hamas intends to keep attacking Israel and terrorising its own people, no matter what. They are proving it by reinstating their missile launchers wherever Israeli troops have withdrawn from, sending rockets towards Israel on a daily basis, continuing to hijack aid trucks as they enter Gaza, and repeating that they intend to carry out massacres like October 7th again and again and again.
So my question is —
Why are people so blind to this?
Why are the participants in marches across the globe, and the students in campuses across North America, Australia, and now the UK too, who claim they are protesting for the goal of peace, not demanding the one and only way we can even begin to pave the way towards peace — the surrender of Hamas.
Why, why, why, why, why??? I just don’t get it.
I don’t believe the vast majority of these protestors are genuine terrorist supporters. I believe they are genuinely good-hearted, if misguided, people.
I believe many are intelligent and, for the most part, sound of mind.
So why can’t they see that the very first means to an end is to remove Hamas from the driving seat of this situation?
Yes, there are many other changes that need to happen, and Israeli society will be doing their utmost to remove its current leaders from power. But Hamas remains the biggest and ugliest obstacle of all to peace and the preservation of life, and they must be pressured to step down and leave the Gaza Strip (and the entire region) in order for humanity to be restored.
But instead of demanding the obvious, they are calling for the death of all Zionists (though few even know what Zionism actually means), the erasure of the State of Israel, calling Jews ‘Nazis’, disrupting life for many others, and inciting more violence with calls for an Intifada. And even if they aren’t making these calls themselves, they are holding space for those calls and for hate to breed.
Just by innocently calling out Israel to “Ceasefire Now” they are failing to address the real issue at hand: terrorists who have been trained by military powers who received their own training from collaborators with Adolf Hitler, back in the time, to help rid the world of Jews.
Don’t believe me? Read about Muhammad Amin al-Husseini and look up Sheikh Abdallah Azzam — there are too many entries online relating to his extensive involvement with terrorist death-worshipping entities to link here.
But I guess its down to the poisoning that Hamas and the violent manipulators of Palestinian cause have inflicted via the media and social media, and our so-called, good-hearted young have been intoxicated with mind-bending bullshit.
But the message is clear: if you want a ceasefire now, then you know who you need to call on. And if we, as a planet of peace-loving individuals could unify our voices and place pressure on Hamas (and the Islamic State, who funds and trains them) instead of furthering their messages of hate, we may be able to swing the tides of this war. Because many voices and all that.
But I know the TikTok videos that bring more hate to Israel will continue to speak louder than any actual sense, so I don’t hold out much hope for that.
I’ll invest my hope elsewhere, as I have done for the last 210 days, and an extra bit of hope that, despite the odds, true peace may eventually prevail.
